[122258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google to offer fiber to end users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Wed Feb 10 16:00:23 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B731D78.4050505@rollernet.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:59:07 -0600
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> >
> http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html
> >
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html
> >
> > What do folks think?
> >
>
> Optimistic view: It can force the incumbents into being competitive on
> service and everyone wins.
>
> Pessimistic view: incumbents feel threatened and try to sue/lobby it
> away to keep the status quo like they did with cities trying to offer
> wifi or FTTH.
>
>
Google cash > Muni cash. I'm not saying it'll work, but they have many more
resources at their disposal. Incumbents should be worried.
> ~Seth
>
>
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